A male Small-eyed Sphinx newly emerged from its pupa provided an opportunity to do a study in color. As an artist explained to me many years ago, black, a total absence of color, seldom occurs in nature. The usage of black and white to delimit shadows and highlights sullies the purity of the colors; for this reason I've kept the black to a minimum in this drawing. The patterns on the wings of moths and butterflies are also fascinating, they are reminiscent of the fractal boundary of a Mandelbrot set.